Ha ha, that was familiar advice, hey Lawrence, when we were but young pups
on the poetry roundabout. My favourite rejection slip came from one James
McAuley who stated, 'You are a very confused young man.'
Not much has changed.
Andrew
On 15 September 2011 15:21, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> My server was having an dd turn recently and sent every message twice
>
> At that point most of what I sent was poetry; so we had the jisc server
> intervening ad saying _rewrite this poem because it's too similar to one I
> have seen_
>
> L
>
> On Thu, September 15, 2011 04:58, andrew burke wrote:
> > Doug, my latest message was also rejected - because it was too similar to
> > one which was already posted. I was simply thanking Catherine for her
> > note about Askew (a wonderful name) ... Oh, well, the gatekeepers are
> > changing shift maybe.
> >
> > --
> > Andrew
> > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
>
>
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> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
> wfuk.org.uk/blog
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> Lawrence Upton
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
>
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Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at
http://www.picaropress.com/
http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766
http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html
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